It's been about 5 and a half years since I did my last Top 100 list. Due to my OCD and compulsion to constantly create lists in my head I think it's time for an all new Top 100.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
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Good for you and your teenage friends for choosing video games over drugs.
Who says we did? Maybe there were other hits?
Yeah, hacky sack is bullshit in that game, I played it on Commodore 64. You know I've got over 20 something Lynx games and two Lynxes and I've never once played a game on them.
Sorry, I shoudl have started that second sentence with, "You know you've got a collecting problem when..."
Oh man does this mean I should update my top 100 list that actually has 140 games on it!
California games was good times.
only if you're willing to commit to 180 this time.As a game Stray is good, though maybe not great. However, it is a fantastic piece of science fiction disguised as a cat simulator.
The game takes place in a walled city some time off in the future, when the cat inadvertently stumbles into it. Humanity and all likelihood is long gone, but in its place their robot companions started to mimic humanity and achieved various levels of sentience.
That's really where the game shines too. Just wandering through different parts of the city and seeing how the robots evolved to be like people was really amazing. There's a lot of nods to Blade Runner here, but the creators did their own thing too and they included plenty of unique ideas of their own. Not all of its subtle. It's probably not a coincidence that the city slums are literally at the lowest level with the friendliest robots, and the higher you go in the city the more hostility you come across, until you get to the very top where everything is super clean and sterile, and the robots have no humanity at all. That said, there is a lot going on in just the environment and that alone justifies checking out the game.
As far as the actual gameplay, it was okay. Decent enough puzzles, and there were some really intense moments with some legit scares because of a biological creature. That's wreaking havoc on the city. But really it's the quiet moments that make the game special. I really wish the game could have been much longer. Just being able to explore and meet new companion robots would have been amazing. A movie is coming out based on the game though, so who knows what we may see in that.
I want a game like that but staring a pug. A derpy pug on a quest for food and belly rubs.